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And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

Trump Did NOT Say We Should Inject Ourselves With Disinfectant, He Said The Opposite

Notice he didn’t say we should start injecting ourselves with disinfectant, he asked Bryan to check “is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.”

Jonathan Karl asked if there was any scenario where cleaners could be injected, and after Mr. Bryan answered President Trump added that it wouldn’t be via injection, but by cleaning an area.

I can't wait to see Trump's defenders try to spin this one. "He didn't really say what we saw and heard him say."

He is asking a question, not saying it should or can be done. So again it is something taken out of context to demonize the man.

What was the context of Trump's comments?

They came at his latest coronavirus press briefing after an official had presented preliminary research on the effects of heat humidity and sunlight.

He said the research suggests the virus' life span is heavily reduced on surfaces when it is exposed to heat, humidity or UV light.

He also said it concludes that bleach can kill the virus in five minutes and that 90 per cent alcohol solutions can do this in 30 seconds.

This is how Trump responded.

"So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," he said.

"And I think you said that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said, suppose you brought the light inside the body, you can, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way."

The US president then went on to address disinfectants.

"Knocks it out in a minute," he said. "One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs."

Trump was asked if it was dangerous to make people think they would be safe by going outside in the heat, considering that so many people have died in Florida.

“I hope people enjoy the sun. And if it has an impact, that’s great,” Trump replied.

“I’m here to present ideas because we want ideas to get rid of this thing. And if heat is good, and if sunlight is good, that’s a great thing as far as I’m concerned,” the president said.

White House blasts media for 'irresponsibly' taking Trump out of context on disinfectants

He also made a separate point about the potential effects of disinfectants on the virus.

“I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning,” the president said. “Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with.”The president went on to say that he wasn’t envisioning a common “injection.”

“We’re talking about through almost a cleaning, sterilization of an area,” he said. “Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work. But it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object.”

Anyone with half a brain can see he did not say that.

And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

The question, which Trump offered unprompted, immediately spurred doctors, lawmakers and the makers of Lysol to respond with incredulity and warnings against injecting or otherwise ingesting disinfectants, which are highly toxic.

When asked Friday during a bill signing in the Oval Office to expand upon this, Trump said it wasn’t intended as a serious suggestion.

“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” Trump said.

There was no indication when he made the initial remarks that they weren’t a real recommendation.

“My concern is that people will die. People will think this is a good idea,” Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, told The Washington Post. “This is not willy-nilly, off-the-cuff, maybe-this-will-work advice. This is dangerous.”

I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen.

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I’m here to present ideas because we want ideas to get rid of this thing.

Which is it?

the dreaded MSM

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: Coronavirus ‘Silver Lining’ Is Damage to Donald Trump

If Trump's advisors had had the temerity to say words to the effect of "No you shouldn’t drink bleach," we wouldn't be in this mess
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“Should people inject themselves with bleach?” as he [UK's transport secretary Grant Shapps] was asked by a reporter from Politico.

The answer is "no". And yet the answer Mr Shapps found himself able to give was not to answer it at all. “I’ll defer to the medical experts,” he said instead, and turned his unctuous, grinning gaze upon the Deputy Chief Medical Officer, who explained what Mr Shapps had found himself unable to explain. That no, injecting oneself with bleach is ill-advised.

Okay, so it’s not as if the media is not itself a dancer in this wild ballet. If Grant Shapps had had the gentle temerity to say words to the effect of "No you shouldn’t drink bleach," then the UK government would have "slammed" Donald Trump, or similar. And why create a diplomatic incident when you can just gently usher a willing scientist out into the firing line on your behalf?

How did we get here, we ask again? We got here for the same reasons that we continue to be here, right now. By turning the other cheek to the powerful, by deferring to somebody else. It took barely more than an hour before the viral star of Donald Trump’s latest insane dribblings to be not Donald Trump himself, but his newly appointed chief coronavirus advisor, Dr Deborah Birx, who sat grimacing by his side in stony silence.

Perhaps every so often, Donald Trump needs to be "slammed"? By the people, by the Republican Party, by his own advisors, by absolutely anybody. How much courage does it take, how much face is lost, by daring to say no, don’t inject yourself with bleach?

For the time being, there is, theoretically at least, a US election happening in November. If Donald Trump wins another four years, the world may very well find it impossible to bear the strain. And there will be few who will bear responsibility quite so heavily as those who have let out a little half-smile and deferred the problem to somebody else.

President Donald Trump used his go-to excuse on Friday afternoon to walk back his astonishing suggestion that people inject disinfectant to cure COVID-19.

“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” Trump said in the Oval Office, according to a pool report.

When asked if he was encouraging such use of disinfectant, the President replied “Of course not.”

The new Associated Press/Ipsos poll finds that only 28 percent of Americans “regularly” get information about coronavirus from the president, and only 23 percent have high levels of trust in the information he provides. Some 54 percent have little to no trust. Meanwhile, other polls have found far higher percentages do trust the media.

...The new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds that 86 percent of Americans believe social-distancing and stay-at-home measures are “responsible government policies that are saving lives.” And 72 percent say a “bigger danger” is loosening such measures too quickly, spreading coronavirus faster, while only 27 percent want to relax them quickly to protect the economy...